Poetry Competition

The Online Community Poetry Competition is your chance to get creative and express yourself. It doesn't matter if you've never written a line of poetry in your life and it doesn't have to rhyme! Just put pen to paper and have a go!

To celebrate the launch of the Adoption UK new look website, the latest competition is on the theme ‘new beginnings'.

For the opportunity to have your poem published online and to win a fantastic prize, send in your entry to the Online Community Poetry Competition now! Interpret the the theme how you like, just make sure that your entry is all your own work, and a maximum of 250 words.

The next deadline is: 31 July 2010

To enter the competition, simply use the link below to email the Online Community Team with your poem, using the subject heading ‘Poetry Competition’. Please copy and paste your poem into the body of the email. Do not send it as an attachment.

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Below is the winning entry for the Autumn 2008 Online Community Poetry Competition, on the theme of ‘the child’, written by Ness. 

I am

I am the sum of all my parts,

The sperm, the egg, the abandoners,
The provider, the carer, my rescuers.

A pool of qualities, personalities, histories.

A swirl of influences, nationalities, difference.

Four times values
Four times beliefs

Four times motives
Wrestling.

Two embodied, demand respect, seek control.

Two ethereal, invisible, tug.

Mysterious, longed for,
The fantasies grow.

The child desperate to fill the void.

The question, why?

Why did you leave me?
This is not my place.

Who Am I?

Torture, rebellion, a defiant stand.
You can not help me.
Leave me alone.

The search brings answers and yet not peace.

The wrong can not be undone.
The black void remains
A part of me.

The revelation.

Awakening, awareness.
Feel feelings,
Embrace the pain.

And now,

Acceptance key, I see.
That which I am
Is
That which I have always been.

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Previous winning entries

Read previous winning entries for the Online Community Poetry Competition